North - Consecration

The fourth step around the Sacred Circle is Consecration, total selflessness, the creating of a secure relationship with the Great Father of Spirits. This is done through great devotion, great selflessness; prayer, fasting, studying, not taking offence, and of course living all these principles in our daily lives. As one progresses in many hours of devotion each day, always thinking and feeling the correct thoughts while praying and fasting and studying, a connection is made, and Gitchi Father gives unto each child a good manitou to stay with them, that they may always be connected. This Good Spirit will always give advice on how to help others, thereby keeping us on the Path of the Father Of All.

Often times, the more the Good Manitou, that has been assigned to assist the new member of the family, is listened to, a gift is revealed. The good spirit always offers a gift to the new child, so that the new child can actually help in the work, contribute to the family. This gift that has been offered, is only to be used to help others. If used to help ourselves, the Good Spirit leaves the selfish person without guidance in the use of the gift. The person becomes a wayward child, running around causing havoc, thinking they are doing good, but actually leading people away from the Family of the Great Manitou. 

So let us be self-less, as the Great Manitou has requested of us, that we may be prepared for the great culture of heaven, and join with our ancestors who have walked this Sacred Road before us!

West - Sanctification

Once a person decides that they would like to live the culture of the Sacred Circle. To begin a new life following the Path of the Great Manitou, one of his children, walking in the footsteps of our Great Father, to grow up to become like Him. This is marked by the adoption ceremony, where those who have shown that they can care for others, without taking offence, are adopted into the family of The Father of Manitou.

To find a family where a person can bear their burdens, to lighten that family's load; to care for them when they are suffering; to comfort them when they need comforting; always establishing peace; to be the example of living the way of the Gitchi Manitou in all circumstances; is a great blessing!

South - Purification

The second step around the Sacred Circle, the process to becoming like Gitchi Manitou, is to purify ourselves.  We purify ourselves through love of each other.  This love is all about helping people. And since there are numerous ways in which we can help others, this step may also take a long time in which to develop consistency, as different ways of helping others will reveal themselves as we go through our lives here upon this earth and beyond.

The basics of these steps are quite easy, and come naturally as we begin to care more and more about others. The first step of the Second part is:

A person who is following this great step-by-step process should always be helping everyone, and looking for ways to help everyone, and going out of their way to help everyone in everything they do.

The second step of the South is: To help, to encourage, and to uplift everyone with our words, all our communications, both verbal and non-verbal.

The third step of the South is: To take this principle of helping everyone into our innermost selves. In reality, that which goes on inside ourselves, does not stay within ourselves, but comes out metaphysically. This means, even those good thoughts which happen within us, can not only help us, but can help those outside of ourselves as well. This means we need to think specifically good thoughts and good imaginations all the time. We need to be thinking how to help other people, imagining the outcome of their good goals being achieved.

The fourth step of this South part is: To apply this same principle of helping everyone to our emotions, our feelings. Our feelings project outwards, influencing all around us. This means we can influence the surrounding environment for good by projecting our most wonderful, helpful, heartfelt emotions outward as well.

A person who is dedicated to following the Path of Gitchi Manitou, will not only stop doing harm to others, but will spend their energy helping others in all ways possible. Those who find their joy in helping others will find their hearts changed, and will find the love of Gitchi Manitou within them always.

East - Dedication

The first step on the path of the Sacred Circle is, we must not hurt people. And since there are many ways in which we can hurt others, this step may take a long time to complete, as different ways of hurting others will surface as we go through our lives here upon this earth. This means that we may be working on this step for a long time, even during times we are working on other steps.

The basics of this step are easy though. The first step of the first part is: A person who is following this great sacred road should not physically harm anyone, nor cause any physical harm to come upon anyone, by any action or inaction.

The second step is: To learn not to hurt anyone with words, spoken or unspoken, seen or unseen, real or imagined, verbally or non-verbally, written or not written, or in any other way which exists or does not exist.

The third step is to take this principle of not hurting anyone into our inner selves. In reality, that which goes on inside ourselves, does not stay within ourselves, but comes out metaphysically. This means, even that which happens within us, not only causes damage to our inner workings, but comes out to attack people outside of ourselves. This means we need to control our thoughts; do no harm to anyone in our thoughts, not even to imagine any harm, or let thoughts of harm come to others. This applies to both the thoughts we think, and the thoughts we do not think.

The fourth step is: To apply the same principle of not hurting anyone in our emotions, our feelings. Our feelings project outwards, influencing all around us. This means we are responsible for our part in the surrounding environment, whether good or bad. It is imperative that we have no bad feelings toward anything, that we do not contribute to any negative emotion in the atmosphere. We must not justify ourselves in this regard.

A person who is serious in following this Path, will not only stop doing harm to others, but will undo any harm previously done to others. Those who humble themselves to this accountability will find The Great Spirit walking with them.

Central Belief

I wrote a few things down for this video, so that I could remember to cover everything accurately.  

In the centre of the Sacred Circle is the Sacred Fire. The Sacred Fire is the altar upon which the Great Manitou places His heart for all to see. The first thing we must believe about Gitchi Manitou is that He is Father to all. And as a Father, He loves and cares about all of us. He has the same desire as all Fathers, that their children will grow up to do well, to become even greater than their dad. This is the core of our faith, this is the central doctrine of our belief, this is the light which lights the Great Path of our Ancestors who have walked the Sacred Road before us.

The heart of our Great Father is that He loves us with all His heart, might, mind, and strength, that He has figured out how to walk the Sacred Road perfectly, which has enabled Him to become who He is, and He is willing to share that information with us, that we may become as He is.

The fact is, He wants for us to even go further than what he has gone. For this reason, He has freely shared with us the programme which He follows, so that we can achieve what He has achieved. This means, our Father shares with us the Sacred Way by which He lives His life, and the results of living that Sacred Way, so that we can achieve those same results, should we wish.

We can certainly see that the purposes of the Great Manitou, are to lead us to greater and greater Happiness and Joy! Any beliefs that do not go along with the Sacred Fire are not a part of our faith, for all must meet this Sacred Belief.